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Find the latest electronics industry news covering new electronics components releases in various electronics domains such as embedded, power electronics, analog, digital, IoT and Automotive industries. 

 

Digi-Key Electronics has announced that it has expanded its Marketplace product portfolio to include a worldwide distribution partnership with LogiSwitch, a company that provides debounced switches with their adaptive NoBounce technology, and VisiShield technologies to simplify Arduino breadboard challenges.

Switch bounce is a problem faced by many…

Little Bee by Weston Braun is an affordable, high-performing current and magnetic field probe that can effectively debug and analyze electronic devices. Built around an Anisotropic Magnetic-Resistive (AMR) magnetic sensor, this new device aims to solve the recurring problem of using an oscilloscope for the measurement of voltages.

When compared to…

STMicroelectronics has released MasterGaN2, an asymmetric half-bridge pair of power GaN transistors in a small 9mm x 9mm x 1mm GQFN package. This new device includes driver and protection circuits and delivers an integrated GaN solution suited to soft-switching and active-rectification converter topologies.  The integrated power GaNs have 650 V drain-source breakdown…

Renesas Electronics has introduced a 60W wireless power receiver, P9418 to deliver faster wireless charging experiences, best thermal performance, and best-in-class current sense accuracy in a high power density solution. Featuring Renesas’ WattShare technology, this highly integrated IC enables quick and convenient charging for a variety of portable computing devices…

The research and development unit within the Department Of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate organized a tech rally consisting of tech experts and volunteers to find a Facial Recognition Algorithm that can identify people with masks with the highest possible accuracy.

The event went on for 10 Days. 582 volunteers were tested by…

ACS37800 from Allegro MicroSystems is an integrated power monitoring chip that allows simultaneous measurement of power, voltage, and current for single-phase AC and DC solutions. Offered in an efficient SOIC16 footprint, this single-chip solution with reinforced isolation significantly reduces PCB size, bill of materials (BOM) cost, and complexity in various IoT devices,…

Encompassed in a standard surface-mount package, the K857PE SMD 4-Quadrant silicon PIN photodiode from New Yorker Electronics delivers an excellent signal-to-noise ratio with virtually no tolerance between segments. Qualified for automotive, consumer, and industrial applications, this new device integrates four monolithic diodes integrated into a single 4.72 mm x 4…

Digi-Key Electronics is now an official Raspberry Pi authorized distributor and will carry the full line of Raspberry Pi products. With more than 36 million platforms sold, Raspberry Pi has become a go-to solution for everything from rapid prototyping to production ready designs.

Raspberry Pi's full line of products includes low-cost, high…

To tackle the ever-increasing need for more computational power, researchers from Yokohama National University, Japan have successfully developed a 4-bit AQFP prototype microprocessor named MANA (Monolithic Adiabatic iNtegration Architecture). This new microprocessor is developed using superconductors that are about 80 times more energy-efficient than the ones found in…

Nuvoton Technology, the Taiwan-based semiconductor manufacturer, has today announced the launch of its new series of ARM Cortex-M0, 32-bit Microcontrollers that features a dual-mode for Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE5.0) and 2.4GHz Proprietary. These new NuMicro M031BT microcontrollers can operate between 1.8V to 3.6V at a frequency of 47MHz and provides up to 128KB Flash memory…

With Electric Vehicles becoming increasingly common and affordable, companies across the world have begun turning their attention towards setting up EV charging infrastructure and developing newer, faster, and efficient methods to charges these EVs. Lately, Volkswagen has given us a first glimpse of the prototypes of its ‘mobile charging robot’ that can be used for fully…

According to the IC Insights report - A Complete Analysis and Forecast of the Integrated Circuit Industry, Fabless Company's share of worldwide IC sales will set a new all-time record at 32.9%. There is a 22% jump expected in the company sales this year, led by a forecasted $2.8 billion sales increase by AMD as compared to only a 6% IC sales increase forecast for the IDMs.…